7 Best jQuery & JavaScript PDF Viewer plugin with examples

In this Post we are providing best jQuery PDF viewer plugin & tutorial with examples.Due to popularity of online document viewer like Google Docs some javascript developers develop a good and useful plugins to view pdf file on online pdf viewer.Here is some good list of online pdf viewers.

1. JavaScript PDF Reader : pdf.js

pdf.js is an HTML5 experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient PDF renderer without native code assistance.

2. jQuery Media Plugin

The jQuery Media Plugin supports unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content. It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page and is compatible with all web hosting services The plugin converts an element (usually an ) into a

which holds the object, embed iframe tags neccessary to render the media content.

3. PDFObject : Embeds PDF files into HTML documents

4.Google Docs Viewer plugin for jQuery

The Google Docs Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer that requires only a URL to a file available online. This neatly bypasses the need for users to have compatible software on their machines for those file types and displays the document right in the browser.

5. ZOHO Viewer plugin for jQuery

The ZOHO Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer that requires only a URL to a file available online. This, just like Google Docs Viewer, bypasses the need for users to have compatible software on their machines for those file types and displays the document right in the browser. Automatically embeds the ZOHO viewer for viewing the doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pps, odt, ods, odp, sxw, sxc, sxi, wpd, pdf, rtf, txt, html, csv, tsv files it supports linked to by anchor tags.

6. jsPDF : Generate PDF files using pure client-side JavaScript

It is an open-source library written by our lead developer, James, for generating PDF documents using nothing but JavaScript. You can use it in a Firefox extension, in Server Side JavaScript and with Data URIs in some browsers.